clean it up!

as you can see, i've cleaned up the bar at the left.

my zine is still for sale.

i deleted all my friend blogs that don't blog anymore. (check out chelsea's blog, she started blogging again).

and i changed daily linkage. notably, surfy surfy has been added. it's surf porn, basically (new boards out of the moonlight glassing shop).

stuff

here are some things i like to say.

1. jai ho! (usually to an indian person, said alot during SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE oscar hysteria. i should say this more often).
2. pay it forward. (said when someone offers to pay you back for something).
3. carpe diem. (self-explanatory. non-ironic life mantra).
4. "woof-woof!" (friend thinks we should bring back arsenio's dawg pound.)

shake n' bake

growing up, some shit just seems super cool. but then you grow up and you realize, how things really stood.

for me, it comes home for a lot of food my mom used to make. she was a working lady trying to feed a family on a shoestring.

big time awesome dinner = hobos. hobos = hamburger meat, frozen corn, and a sliced potato. on a plate and microwaved. we thought it was the best thing ever. i liked mine w/ a KRAFT single on the meat. my sister preferred hers w/o the cheese.

water rice = a bowl of rice + water. usually eaten w/ a hotdog sliced up horizontal into little bit size pieces. total treat.

i can't say that i've had either since i was maybe 14. definitely not since i left the house for college, but they were staples of my upbringing, and i had no idea how budget these things were until i left home and saw how other people lived.

i don't think they're gross now. i stand by them. they were awesome foods to eat. i don't regret liking them or eating them. i wonder why i don't have water rice more. it used to be my favorite thing. and i know my parents still eat water rice now (but not with hotdogs mind you, probably with kim chee and some korean style meat).

i remember the first time i went to camp and ate cafeteria food with other kids. they complained that the mashed potatoes were instant. I NEVER KNEW THAT YOU COULD MAKE MASHED POTATOES IN A NON-INSTANT FASHION. i thought that mashed pototoes came in a box called "potato buds" and you mixed that shit with water, milk, and butter. i loved camp mashed pototoes with a passion. they were just like mom used to make.



which leads me to shake n' bake. a kraft foods original. do you like bbq chicken? how about breaded pork chops? how about buying a box from the store w/ a spice packet and plastic bag--you buy the raw meat, shake it w/ the spices in a bag and then bake it.

tonight, i made unwittingly myself gourmet shake n' bake. it was out of necessity. i went to albertson's. bought the cheapest on sale meat (pork chops). dipped them in some maple syrup / miso / worcestershire / dijon mustard. and breaded in an olive oil / panko. basically, recreating shake n' bake. it was awesome. i didn't realize it until i was eating it what i had done. recreating childhood.

some people aren't so lucky. in college, i was into this girl and after class we had lunch at my place. i opened a can of pears and asked her if she wanted some. she politely declined. i was thinking, "cool, more pears for me!" it wasn't until later that i realized she probably never ate canned pears. her loss, i guess.

i hate it when people talk about the awesome food that they made themselves in status updates on facebook. but for a blog post, it seems ok. this is my story. this is my blog. and i love shake n' bake.

what i learned: t-give

new journalistic monday morning style writing device: "what i learned."

t-give edish. pics to come.

1. everything i write on facebook sounds gay (comments, links, status).
2. NINJA ASSASIN might be the best movie ever made.
3. i suck at ping pong.
4. BRUNO was a terrible movie.
5. BRUNO is also terrible to watch with a 3 year old and your parents (made it through 12 minutes before eject).
6. i learned how to make kimbap.

week in review

-- the shoes i designed are "hideous"

-- top five pro sports: 1. pro surfer, 2. nba, 3. soccer (premiership), 4. soccer (la liga), 5. tennis



-- i went to SD zoo last weekend with my mom and deleted all my awesome photos by mistake.

question of the day and quote of the weekend

senior year of college, when HIGH FIDELITY came out, one of my friends, brendan, told me that i had to go see the movie: "it's all about music fandom and top 5 lists. you'd love it. i thought of you."

i thought that there was no way, and i wasn't really the type of person. but you know, i love finding topics for top 5 lists. like: top 5 animals. top 5 cities to live in. top 5 cities to visit. top 5 bands. top 5 songs played on itunes. top 5 bands by hard drive volume on your hard drive. someone once said, "top 5 laws?" to me. b/c i'm a lawyer. top 5 judges! top 5 public policies (what i said back to her, b/c she was a public policy person). top 5 events to win the gold medal in the olympics.

so...question of the day:

if you could be a pro athlete in any sport in any league in the world--what would it be?

also, i went to my friend's b-day party at a karaoke place in koreatown. i was in the middle of of singing "straight up" by paula abdul--not my choice, but no one would sing it when it came on--when one of her friend's said to her, "this guy is pretty emo, huh?" then b-day girl screamed it across the room to me. it was pretty funny.

favorite ways to waste some time

creating sneakers on nike ID website.

return of the friday music jam

courtesy of pitchfork.

i know that peter gabriel and hot chip recorded a version of vampire weekend's cape cod kwassa kwassa (the song where they name drop gabriel).



linked to that on youtube, is a cover by lykke li.



both versions are nice reinventions.

here's the original.

chinese rocks

my homie from college on CNN talking music on his record label. so awesome.

they are on tour in the U.S. right now. peep if you can.

the agony

just spent a good deal of time agonizing over buying a new notebook to write down notes to myself.

black n red



or moleskin



basically, i wanted something small. and w/ an elastic clasp to keep it closed.

this is such a nerdy pursuit. let's get pretentious.